Tape-affixing attachment for garment-clasps.



B. F. OREWILER.

TAPE AFFTXING ATTACHMENT FOR GARMENT CLASPS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 3. 1915.

1 ,1 9U.,575. Patented July 11, 1916.

fizz/272207" enjammOrewz' Zer BENJAMIN F. OREWILER, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS.

TAPE-AFFIXING ATTACHMEN T FOR GARMENT-GLASIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1916..

Application filed May 3, 1915. Serial No. 25,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be ,it known that I, BENJAMIN F. ORE- wiLnR, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tape-AiiixingAttachments for Garment-Clasps, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention relates to a part or attachment for securing andholding inplace a tape which enters into the construction of a garmentclasp. One of the objects of provide a member for carrying out thepurpose above specified, which is cheap and simple of construction andis formed as an integral part of and simultaneously with a necessaryportion of the garment clasp. A further object of the invention is tobring about this result without changing in any way or manner theappearance or effectiveness of the garment clasp as a whole. A furtherobject of the invention is to provide a member which can be applied in asimple and quick manner, and to eliminate stitching and similarlaborious operations which have heretofore been indulged in in effectingthe securing of the tape portion of the invention is to a garment clasp.

The invention further consists in the features of construction andcombination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation showing a garter equipped withthe attachment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectionon line 22 of Fig. 1, and, Fig. 3, an enlarged section on line 3-3 ofFig. 1.

In the art to which the present invention relates, it is now theuniversal custom to suspend the stud of the garment clasp by means of aflexible tape and to employ a clamping member having a button-hole slottherein, which operates in conjunction with the stud to clasp thegarment. All this is well understood in the art. It is extremelydesirable and, in fact, practically a necessity at the present time, tocover the back of the base which supports or carries the stud, as wellas the back of the clamping member. This is to carry out the rustlesseffect, which does not permit any of the metal of the various parts ofthe garter appliance to be exposed along its rear face. The inventionaccomplishes the foregoing desired features and does so in a mannerwhereby the cost of manufacture of the article is considerably reduced,quantities being taken into conslderation.

Referring now to the drawings: the invention is illustrated inconnection with a garter appliance comprising an elastic section 4;equipped with an attaching member 5, an adjusting buckle 6 and a member7 for connecting the elastic to the non-elastic section 8, all of whichmay be of any suitable construction. This non-elastic section 8 is, asshown, of a two-part formation and each part carries a stud 9 attachedto a base 10, and, cooperating with this stud to clamp the garment is aclamping member 11 formed with a button-hole slot 12.

In order to properly suspend the stud and to cover the back of the baseof the stud, as well as the back of the clamping member 11, asupplemental tape 13 is employed, which is looped back upon itself, oneportion 14: being woven through suitable slots 15 in the stud base, andthe other portion 17 of the tape 13 extending along the rear face of thebase 10 and clamping member 11. The free ends 18 of the tape 13, as willbe seen from Fig. 3, are inserted into the recess of a U-shaped member19 which, in fact, is the upper portion of the clamping member 11, thefront face 20 of this member 19 being the ordinary top portion of theclamping member 11, as will be apparent from the drawings, while therear portion 21 of this U-shaped member is formed by bending upward aportion of the material struck out from the clamp ing member in formingthe button-hole slot 12that is to say, in forming the clamping member,in place of completely cutting out the center thereof to form thebutton-hole slot 12, the upper portion of the material inside the wallsof the slot, which would otherwise be blanked out, is not cut away alongthe upper edge thereof, and this uncut portion is bent back and formsthe rear part of the U-shaped member 19, so that this rear portion isformed at the same operation which forms the clamping member, and use ismade of otherwise waste material to form the same. Preferably a flange22 is formed along the upper edge of this rear portion 21 and thisflange alines with a slot 23 in the front portion 20.

When the device is turned out from the die press, the rear portion 21 isgiven an angular disposition so that the flanged edge thereof is spacedaway a greater distance .struction, said body being from the frontportion than its lower edge. This permits of the ready insertion of theend of the tape section 8 and the ends of the tape section 13, in themanner shown in Fig. 3. Then, by a swaging operation, the tape insertedbetween the front and rearsections of the U-shaped member 19, is forcedor crowded into the slot 23 and they are thus fixedly held in positionagainst displacement. As will be observed from the drawings, the tape 13passes over the top of the rear section 21- and down over the backthereof, rendering this portion of the device of a rustless nature.

claim:

1. .A device of the class described, comprising a loop-shaped clampingmember of one piece construction formed with a button-hole slot, across-plate above said slot, a horizontal recess in the cross-plate, atongue ormed of a portion of the metal lying within the confines of thebutton-hole slot, said tongue being bent back to extend to the rear ofthe cross-plate and forming a U-shaped slot to the rear of thecross-plate, with the closed endof the slot at the bottom of thecross-plate, and said tongue being provided with a flange projectingtoward and in register with the recess of the clamping member,substantially as described.

2. An attachment of the class described, comprising a body portion ofone-piece conformed to provide abutton-hole slot and an uppercross-plate above said slot, said cross-plate being formed with ahorizontally extending slot therein, a tongue extending in the lowerendof the cross-plate and bent back to form a U-shaped slot at therearofthe cross-plate, with the closed end thereof lying at the bottom ofthe cross-plate, a stud base, webbing woven through the stud base, thefree ends of the webbing lying within said U-shaped slot with the bodyof the webbing passing over the free end of the tongue and downwardlyacross the back thereof, a flange on the free end of the tongue, saidflange alining with the horizontal slot in the cross-plate, whereby whensaid tongue is swaged inward toward said cross-plate, said webbing isforced into saidslot and held in place, substantially as described.

3. An attachment of the class described, comprising a body portion ofone-piece construction, said body being formed to provide a button-holeslot and an upper cross-plate above said slot, said cross-plate beingformed with a horizontal recess, a tongue extending from the cross-plateand bent back to form a U-shaped slot at the rear of the cross-plate,with the closed end thereof lying at the bottom of the cross-plate, astud base, webbing woven through the stud base, the free ends of thewebbing lying within said U-shaped slot with the body of the webbingpassing over the free end of the tongue and downwardly across the backthereof, a flange on the free end of the tongue, said flange aliningwith the recess in the cross-plate, where by said tongue is swagedinward toward said cross-plate, and said webbing is forced into saidrecess and held in place, substantially as described.

BENJAMIN F. oREwiLER.

Witness WM. P. BOND.

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v Washington, D. C.

